THE CONSTRUCTION SOURCE CANADA A good name Recently, Ecclesiastical Refinishing Group completed work on the interior restoration of St. Michael the Archangel Catholic Church, located in Belleville. From the start, Mark says that project required the kind of creative problem solving that has kept Ecclesiastical Group relevant for four decades. The first obstacle was a logistical one – the cost of scaffolding the church came in at $400,000 from three separate estimates, nearly double the most Mark had paid on previous comparable projects. The solution was to bring in electric scissor lifts instead, which is something the company had only done once before. After commissioning engineer’s drawings to reinforce the floor, they brought in the “lightest and highest lifts we could find,” which enabled them to move forward on budget. Progress from there was slow – they could only fit in four lifts at a time, plus the pastor wanted the church to remain open throughout construction – but they recently got it done and Mark believes the wait was worth it. “It’s absolutely stunning,” he says. “There’s also a new lighting and sound system, and it looks and sounds beautiful.” At the heart of that stunning result is an extraordinary design element – a 47-foot marble high altar, sourced from a decommissioned Catholic church in Albany, New York, and purchased through an Atlanta-based ecclesiastical dealer. The altar arrived in Belleville in
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